                                CLIPBOARD DIALER

                                 BY GREG McCAIN


WHAT IT DOES:

The Clipboard Dialer is a little tool I whipped up to provide a quick and 
easy way to use your modem to dial a phone number from Windows.  If you
use a database or even a text file to store your phone numbers, you need not
dial the telephone yourself.  Just use the Clipboard Dialer hot key.

HOW TO USE:

All you have to do is copy a number to the Windows clipboard, and press 
CTRL-SHIFT-P. This will activate the Clipboard Dialer, which will use your 
modem to dial the number. To hang up after a number has been dialed simply 
press CTRL-SHIFT-P again.

FEATURES:

   - The Clipboard Dialer will automatically dial a "1" in front of any 10
     digit phone number.  It assumes that any 10 digit phone number is long
     distance, and requires a "1".  Note it will *only* add a "1" if there 
     are exactly ten digits in the number.

   - The Clipboard Dialer validates the data in the clipboard before dialing.
     It will dial any string of numbers, intermingled with the characters:
     ")", "(", "#", "*", "-", " ", "\n", "\r".  If any other characters are
     in the clipboard, the Clipbaord Dialer will complain and not dial the 
     number.

   - The "Hide Desktop Icon" option allows you to minimize the Clipboard
     Dialer without it creating a Windows "Icon".  The program will still be 
     running, and the CTRL-SHIFT-P will still activate the dialer.  
     This allows you to start up the Clipboard Dialer in a mimimized state
     and you never even have to look at any window for it.

   - Supports COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4.  Just choose which one you want
     to use from the Clipboard Dilaer window.

TECHNICAL INFO:

   - Uses up about 8K of RAM
   
   - I Open the communication ports at 1200 baud.  If you are using a 300
     baud modem, the Clipboard Dialer will not work.  (Get a real modem.)

DISCLAIMER:

   The Clipboard dialer is distributed as FREEWARE.  Just don't charge
   anybody anything for it.  For questions, comments, love letters, hate
   mail, or nice cheesecake, call or write me at:

                Greg McCain
                gmccain@demeter.csc.calpoly.edu
                633 Couper #4
                San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
                U. S. A.

